I don’t know about the rest of you, but growing up my mom usually did a major house cleaning twice a year. Once in the fall since you about to be spending a lot of time indoors if you live in a cold weather climate and then again in the spring since we had been cooped up in the house all winter. This cleaning usually involved washing or painting walls and cleaning the carpets.

For us cleaning the carpets usually meant heading down to the local Ace Hardware and renting a shampooer. They were bulky and often took an engineering degree to figure out how to work the darn thing. Once you got it working, then let the time consuming, painstaking agony begin. After hours and hours of hard work and screaming, “Don’t walk on the carpet!”, then you had to wait for an eternity for the rug to dry since extracting the water never delivered as promised.

Thank God, there are now so many carpet cleaning companies around that can come and do it for you. Their equipment is a greater quality and they don’t appear to be working nearly has hard as we did with our little rental. You can even choose to have your carpets steam cleaned which cuts down even more on the drying time.

If you want to cut down even more on dry time there are companies that do dry cleaning as well. They use dry solvents or chemical compounds that break down the soil on your carpet. Since this methods makes it possible to walk on the rugs dang near immediately, business often use this method.

No matter what option of carpet cleaning you choose, be reasonable and hire someone to come do it! Your carpets will last longer and just imagine all the gross things they have encountered since the last cleaning. Inevitably someone will walk on it with dirty, germy shoes or if you have pets, the enough said. Cleaning your carpets will also cut down on allergens in your house. This is big thing for people who have allergies or breathing issues.

And hey, if you don’t feel like cleaning your house, I bet your local carpet cleaner has a great referral system for a reputable house cleaner!